Ms. Twillis is widely regarded by the village as an oddity. She lists slightly to the left at all times, giving her a perennially inquisitive look. Her head-to-toe mismatched florals are adorned with lace and pearls that rattle. One might watch her daintily mincing her way through the bloody, damp fish market and assume she is on her way to attend some posh tea at the house on the hill, but this is unlikely to be the case. A Twillis has not been welcome in that house for generations.
However strange and slight she might appear, Ms. Twillis is a woman of great power.
She is a diviner, a fortune teller, an oracle, a prober of fish guts. It is within their glistening viscera that she finds the truths of the universe… or where you misplaced your left stocking.
She guts the fish, divines the fortune, fries the meat, and serves it to her inquiring client.
Waste not.
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Fog Horn and Gulls Sound Effect by Deborah Wong from Pixabay
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